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Shall We Dance?: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin
- C major
- 2/2
- 100 BPM
- I–ii–V7–I loop
- 1937
- Easy
Play the full song with sheet music
The accompaniment with every note named, bar by bar: the bar sheet shows each note as a bar on the staff with its letter inside, so you can accompany Shall We Dance? without reading music. The left hand plays pausing footsteps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 3) and the right hand pop stabs.
Shall We Dance? accompaniment in letter notes
The C – Dm – G7 – C loop with pausing footsteps in the left hand and pop stabs in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.
How to read the bar sheet
The player above shows the treble staff (right hand) over the bass staff (left hand). Every note is a bar as long as it sounds, at its place on the staff, with its name inside, and the music scrolls past a line that marks now. The chord names run along the top.
Start with the left hand alone at a slow speed, then the right, then both. When the letters feel easy, try the sheet music.
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Questions about Shall We Dance?
What are the letter notes for the Shall We Dance? piano accompaniment?
Bar by bar, both hands: the bar sheet on this page names every note of the accompaniment (C4 is middle C) and plays along. The loop is C – Dm – G7 – C, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Shall We Dance??
The loop is C – Dm – G7 – C (I – ii – V7 – I) in C major, and the song ends on F – G – C.
What key is Shall We Dance? in?
C major, at about 100 beats a minute in 2/2.
What does the left hand play in Shall We Dance??
Pausing footsteps: root bass · 1 · 2 · 3, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Shall We Dance? easy to play on piano?
Yes. Both hands play easy patterns over 4 chords. Learn the chords first, then add one hand at a time.
Made from one arrangement of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.